"Lock-in is of course a concern, but that hasn't prevent some AWS services from taking off big time. Perhaps in the near future one will see an open source proj

"Lock-in is of course a concern, but that hasn't prevent some AWS services from taking off big time. Perhaps in the near future one will see an open source project that offers an off-the-shelf backend with a Parse-compatible API, much like what happened to S3 and etc." I hope so. I agree that user authentication is a redundant piece of any app that needs to be implemented each time. But I don't like the third party lockin. What if Parse goes out of business next week? Do I have to rewrite all my code that talks to them? I guess I could abstract it enough at the get go to prepare for this. I think an open source project that isn't tied to a third party would be great.